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pSp7wSTEEL,WORKERS CROWN SKYSCRAPER FRAMESWITH "OLD GLORY" TO PREVENT DEATHThere is a superstition among structural steel workers that when thoHighest pinnacle of a building is reached that unless the American flag israised there that day, one or more men will be killed on the job before thebuilding is complete. For a contractor to refuse to crown the spider-likesteel structure of the framework of his building with Old Glory is, a seriousbreach of the etiquette of steelworkers, and is liable to cause a "walkout onhis job." 'The picture above shows the ceremony of "Crowning a Building withOld Glory." Little Ruth Bergstrom scaled t othe top of the dome of theTraiisportatioirBuildinglofi'the Panama "World's Fail- fnSan "Francisco upoift&miitirtim;-lk&$e&B.iM..